Henry Fuchs

UNC Chapel Hill

über das Thema:

Dreams, Illusions and Promise of Telepresence

Zeit: Tue 18.6.2013, 20:00, 60 Minuten
Ort: AEC, Deep Space Live

Zusammenfassung

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Dreams of telepresence ? almost teleportation ? are fed by special effects in movies,
on stage, and even in TV news shows. These illusions may fool some passive viewers,
but fail to work for the actual distant participants. Some of these illusions have been
exploited for centuries. Why, then is telepresence so difficult to achieve? This talk
will explain some of the tricks and illusions, and explain why they work on the stage
but not ?in the real world?. We will also explain why several promising new
technologies, such as Microsoft Kinect and Google Glass, may radically improve the
chances for telepresence to work not just ?in the real world?, but to become available
for the consumer market in the coming decade, enabling most of us to experience
daily this age-old dream of being at a far-off place, interacting with distant people, as
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Vortragender

Henry Fuchs is the Federico Gil Distinguished Professor at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA). He has been active in 3-dimensional computer
graphics since the 1970?s. His innovative rendering algorithms enabled some of the
earliest 3D computer games and medical visualizations. His graphics-specialized
hardware designs foreshadowed the specialized graphics chips now used in nearly every personal computer and mobile device. His research group at UNC also
pioneered specialized displays for virtual reality and augmented reality, both headworn
devices and also room-sized multi-projector environments. These systems have
been used in both training and medical applications. His most recent work has focused
on tele-presence, attempting to make long-distance tele-conferencing become more
and more like face-to-face interaction in the same room.
Fuchs has been honored with a variety of awards, among them the 1992 Achievement
Award from ACM-Siggraph, the world?s largest computer graphics society;
membership in the National Academy of Engineering (USA) and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences (USA), and the 2013 IEEE-VGTC Virtual Reality
Career Award.